WordPress MU

Ok ive posted on adding category issues such as

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8709
where adding a Category in the admin area it results in this http://freeblog.co.nz/cat_iss.jpg

Same problems as this poster
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8709

and the plot thickens if go into to the database I can see may Categories but they are not all showing in the relevent blogs admin areas

Can some one tell me I have deleted categories direct from the database wp_sitecategories but only from the spam sites

could this effect the way Categories are called and saved
its occurring in all major browsers

this is a real problem for me as I have 14 blogs running and none of them can create Categories with out this occurring http://freeblog.co.nz/cat_iss.jpg

Bill008

http://www.freeblog.co.nz

Bill008

Deleting directly from the database is a bad thing. Categories are used in a number of tables, at the very least the numbering system of them. My money is on you're seeing the front page of your blog (I'm guessing that's what that is.) in place of a 404 page.

See your other thread. From looking at the line numbers, I think you've got a broken install.

Thanks for your reply

Its as you say I get my front page and

Ouch I was thinking that Might be the case !

Is there any advice on re-installation?

Is it possible to keep users profiles and stuff or maybe weed thru the tables before they are many

Fingers crossed X

bILL007

Well I saved my current database the one thought to be broken

then Deleted it on the server then i deleted the the wp-config.php

ran the install script

recreated the data base successfully signed in as admin

tried to create a Category and guess what same thing

But this time with a brand spanking new data base

http://freeblog.co.nz/cat_iss.jpg

so if its not the database what is it I have up loaded almost every folder again is there something wrong server side this is bizarre

the logs show absolutely nothing

Please any Help Bill008

Ok I can edit Categories delete categories but when it comes to adding categories i get this 404 error page as discribed above

If I go to write a new post and click save with out setting a category I get 1 Category that shows up

This is a bug http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/580

I can edit it how ever so in some strange I can add categories thru not choosing one when posting

Could this be connected

Bill008

Ha Ha Ha I love a challenge Had to do a full reinstall only to find out this would have done it so I will try to upload my old database?

This is bizarre Problem Fixed

How ever it was a real head Scratcher

The Add category Function Kept refusin to add and if you have read above you would see my issues

well I went back to the catogories.php in wp-admin

And found that it called the edit-category-form.php near the bottom of the script

The top part of the scriptedit-category-form.php sets the form variables

Via

the if and Else statement at the top of the script

the if statement is for the editing of a category.

this part of the code on line 5 is for the edit action

$form = '<form name="editcat" id="editcat" method="post" action="categories.php">';

I changed to this (added the full url to action)

$form = '<form name="editcat" id="editcat" method="post" action="http://freeblog.co.nz/wp-admin/categories.php">';

the Else statement is for the adding of a category.

this part of the code on line 12 is for the adding action

$form = '<form name="addcat" id="addcat" method="post" action="categories.php">';

I changed to this (added the full url to action)

$form = '<form name="addcat" id="addcat" method="post" action="http://freeblog.co.nz/wp-admin/categories.php">';

and YES YES YES i know I'm yelling But i fixed it